Dropbox. It just works. It's cross-platform. They've ironed out most of
the bugs.
On 16/02/2011 11:36, Dave Hanson wrote:
I sure you can tell from the subject where this is going :)
I'm particularly keen to find out what everyones preferred online
storage solution is and why, I ask because I am struggling to find one
suitable for Ubuntu, here's what I have tried;
- Ubuntu One (obviously)
The main issue with this for me is that it seems to be ALWAYS doing
something in the background even if there is nothing to sync, and when
it does do the syncing it's so sloooow. I'm not moving huge files
around but some are a good few MB in size and a the cluttered
directory structure I use accompanied with the large amount of small
files just don't seem to be suited as it can take an absolute age for
the browser based version of Ubuntu One to correspond to what my local
folder contains once I have moved something around or added to the
folder.
- Spider Oak
It seemed ideal at first as I study at University, Spider Oak boasts
that it will automatically backup my files each time I save and keep a
copy for me at no cost to my storage limit, excellent? Not quite, the
backup of the files is true but the use of space is not, and I have
already run out of my allowance. You can download the files from their
site, but you cannot then upload!? - odd. (well, it seems odd to me
anyway?) The uploads/syncing also seems to be a lot quicker than One.
- Sky Drive/Live Mesh (I know it's a bit taboo talking about MS here,
apologies in advance)
The best I have tried in my opinion, fast syncing & uploads, didn't
seem to be doing a huge about in the background wasting resources and
the Sky Drive also comes with 25GB of online storage, The drive can
also be mounted to windows so it seems like a standard drive. shame it
can't be ran on Ubuntu as I have recently made the permanent 'switch'
and abandoned Windows all together.
So that concludes my (very) shortlist and my experiences, And as I say
"I'm particularly keen to find out what everyones preferred online
storage solution is and why".
Thanks Everybody.
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